At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 ago 1990 - 264 páginas In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza! |
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... ladies present . " That was what the local newspaper said , and it was what first called John White to my attention . White's obituary mentioned his unusual sympathy for women and quoted his oft - stated dictum , " Give me the ladies on ...
... ladies present . " That was what the local newspaper said , and it was what first called John White to my attention . White's obituary mentioned his unusual sympathy for women and quoted his oft - stated dictum , " Give me the ladies on ...
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... lady , " Martha would note , and they would watch the matron pick her way around the town's numerous potholes and piles of manure . More often than not , the visitor with the grand airs was not a real lady but the cossetted wife of some ...
... lady , " Martha would note , and they would watch the matron pick her way around the town's numerous potholes and piles of manure . More often than not , the visitor with the grand airs was not a real lady but the cossetted wife of some ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Vista previa restringida - 1992 |
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